Amazon RDS for SQL Server uplifted quotas for General Purpose (gp3) storage volumes, expanding maximum size fourfold to 64 TiB and boosting IOPS fivefold to 80,000, with throughput doubling to 2,000 MiB/s. These upgrades enable handling of larger databases and performance-intensive workloads on a single volume.
Additionally, customers can configure up to three gp3 or io2 volumes per DB instance for aggregate capacity up to 256 TiB. These enhancements target demanding transactional and analytical systems, improving throughput and simplifying storage management without pricing changes for baseline capacities.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes ↗Source published 2026-06-18. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.